What are peoples views on the dazed write up? on the video?
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/10182/1/david-moore--the-oars-video-premiere-loveless
Hard work pays off and im going to have a weekend in the sun.
Note to self on how to get things done, work your arse off and say thank you!
Enjoy your Easter people... Cheers
Thursday 21 April 2011
Sunday 17 April 2011
Thoughts...
Sometimes i write down small thoughts, drunk or angry normally.
So I'm looking through them and thought I'd share a few for fun...
If you live in a middle class neighbourhood expect to be woken up early by DIY. If you live in a working class neighbourhood expect to be kept awake by domestic violence. I'm more a night person but dont judge me.
I'm dubious of those preconditioned answers like "people died for your right to...", someone also died for some of the worst regimes ever and I expect kids were told off in a similar manner in those places too.
I feel less a consumer and more consumed.
I wonder if the speed of thought can be determined by handwriting?
On your list of changes I think your hair shouldn't be the first.
Never argue with your girlfriend while drunk!
Another preconditioned answer to watch out for... "who is they?".
Why in middle class areas are there yoga flyers EVERYWHERE? Maybe because its lazy excercise... haha I said it.
I met some very thick people today... When people wonder how the Nazi party came to power is it really that hard to fathom?
Shoreditch made my mind up, beauty can become freak and Just coz you're loud doesn't mean you have a big personallity.
Anything for the greater good i'm pretty sure is not for my good.
I knew a guy called rory once, he wore a che gevara t-shirt to collage and got people telling him he was cool, He also had a Chairman Moa, Lenin and Pol Pot t-shirt too. not similar reactions. I liked his one man mission to prove some kinda point, he said he did it coz he hated the che being cool thing, I'm with him, but he was an odd guy.
I've decided im a cat person over a dog person, dog people like the power trip, I like how cats are flying solo.
While I'm on the subject of animals, I dont get how come people hate pigeons? its a generally shared opinion that they're rubbish, I can't say they ever bothered me. I'm for pigeons too!
Pretty sure TFL needs a new signal system.
Why and how do women try and apply makeup on the tube?
The Doctor has no idea whats wrong with me and that was that, 30 something years experience and nothing! Blank face. How many people are walking round with things wrong that they have no idea about?
PS. Dont believe statistics, and never google your illness or ailments!!!!
So I'm looking through them and thought I'd share a few for fun...
If you live in a middle class neighbourhood expect to be woken up early by DIY. If you live in a working class neighbourhood expect to be kept awake by domestic violence. I'm more a night person but dont judge me.
I'm dubious of those preconditioned answers like "people died for your right to...", someone also died for some of the worst regimes ever and I expect kids were told off in a similar manner in those places too.
I feel less a consumer and more consumed.
I wonder if the speed of thought can be determined by handwriting?
On your list of changes I think your hair shouldn't be the first.
Never argue with your girlfriend while drunk!
Another preconditioned answer to watch out for... "who is they?".
Why in middle class areas are there yoga flyers EVERYWHERE? Maybe because its lazy excercise... haha I said it.
I met some very thick people today... When people wonder how the Nazi party came to power is it really that hard to fathom?
Shoreditch made my mind up, beauty can become freak and Just coz you're loud doesn't mean you have a big personallity.
Anything for the greater good i'm pretty sure is not for my good.
I knew a guy called rory once, he wore a che gevara t-shirt to collage and got people telling him he was cool, He also had a Chairman Moa, Lenin and Pol Pot t-shirt too. not similar reactions. I liked his one man mission to prove some kinda point, he said he did it coz he hated the che being cool thing, I'm with him, but he was an odd guy.
I've decided im a cat person over a dog person, dog people like the power trip, I like how cats are flying solo.
While I'm on the subject of animals, I dont get how come people hate pigeons? its a generally shared opinion that they're rubbish, I can't say they ever bothered me. I'm for pigeons too!
Pretty sure TFL needs a new signal system.
Why and how do women try and apply makeup on the tube?
The Doctor has no idea whats wrong with me and that was that, 30 something years experience and nothing! Blank face. How many people are walking round with things wrong that they have no idea about?
PS. Dont believe statistics, and never google your illness or ailments!!!!
Dazed digital
So people know, Dazed and confused's online site 'dazed digital' will be premiering the music video 'loveless' on wednesday the 20th April at 10am.
Please check it out on: http://www.dazeddigital.com/
Please check it out on: http://www.dazeddigital.com/
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Lund lyrics
Enough of my babble and here is the lyrics to Lund if you care. Thought it might be nice, I wont go into detail on my songs to much, I think that these things are personal to both the artist and the listener and can hold different meaning and emotion.
The strange thing about this song is that it was intended as an instrumental piece, and toward the end of recording i heard the mellody you hear and just jumped out and sang it, and recorded it in about 2 minutes, something very natural and unedited about it came out and i think it became my favourate.
Ill put some more lyrics and words up soon.
Wade the waves
Climb the sky with you
I need a friend
Until the end
I hope that you will be there too
So cast away
The road it starts anew
Some day again
In a thousand years
I hope that you will be there too
The strange thing about this song is that it was intended as an instrumental piece, and toward the end of recording i heard the mellody you hear and just jumped out and sang it, and recorded it in about 2 minutes, something very natural and unedited about it came out and i think it became my favourate.
Ill put some more lyrics and words up soon.
Wade the waves
Climb the sky with you
I need a friend
Until the end
I hope that you will be there too
So cast away
The road it starts anew
Some day again
In a thousand years
I hope that you will be there too
Pop culture...
I would like to discuss this strange notion that people seem to have regarding 'pop'.
Surely it means something which is popular? not a genre of some kind. Yet people have a hard time with it, as if it means something is shit! Granted that most things in 'pop' culture are, I wont deny it, weather its music, art, interior design or modern cars, its about whats easily exported on mass to make maximum amounts of money. But if something great becomes pop then they suddenly dont like it, or they will not except that it is.
However, sometimes great art does become mainstream, as great things inevitable will, they come once every so often and stick the test of time, often its hard at the time to see if something will live forever, but as other things fall to the side these great works last, like 'the beatles' for an obvious and extremely exhausted example, they are pop and created great music and time has shown it.
Sometimes, when im going off at someone about great or true art they say things to me like "well, not ALL music needs to be a master piece, or moving or out of this world!", and generally with those answers, like all the pre-learned and heard before answers, you take this as something widely viewed and exceptable because it sounds knowledgeable, BUT however I think otherwise, I think that it SHOULD be those things.
My Dad told me once that everything I do should be the best I could do it, and I agree with him, if its not then why bother at all?
The difficulty now is the ability that technology gives the entire world a means to create and have the world to view it, so now we are swamped by such an intense amount of rubbish its hard to see the true light, however I love the freedom that the internet brings, but even with my limited faith in humanity being able to see sense, I still believe in the truth seekers who sometimes bring us wonderful, untainted art.
So heres my point, im trying to create the best music I can, forever striving for the pure thing, I made myself sick over these recordings trying to do it, and I would love for everyone to love my work, but I realise that there will always be people who dont, but that if people feel something deep from your art, if you truely tapped into that place that hits your soul, then chances are it will receive some kind of popular aclaim and im totally OK with that. right?
Surely it means something which is popular? not a genre of some kind. Yet people have a hard time with it, as if it means something is shit! Granted that most things in 'pop' culture are, I wont deny it, weather its music, art, interior design or modern cars, its about whats easily exported on mass to make maximum amounts of money. But if something great becomes pop then they suddenly dont like it, or they will not except that it is.
However, sometimes great art does become mainstream, as great things inevitable will, they come once every so often and stick the test of time, often its hard at the time to see if something will live forever, but as other things fall to the side these great works last, like 'the beatles' for an obvious and extremely exhausted example, they are pop and created great music and time has shown it.
Sometimes, when im going off at someone about great or true art they say things to me like "well, not ALL music needs to be a master piece, or moving or out of this world!", and generally with those answers, like all the pre-learned and heard before answers, you take this as something widely viewed and exceptable because it sounds knowledgeable, BUT however I think otherwise, I think that it SHOULD be those things.
My Dad told me once that everything I do should be the best I could do it, and I agree with him, if its not then why bother at all?
The difficulty now is the ability that technology gives the entire world a means to create and have the world to view it, so now we are swamped by such an intense amount of rubbish its hard to see the true light, however I love the freedom that the internet brings, but even with my limited faith in humanity being able to see sense, I still believe in the truth seekers who sometimes bring us wonderful, untainted art.
So heres my point, im trying to create the best music I can, forever striving for the pure thing, I made myself sick over these recordings trying to do it, and I would love for everyone to love my work, but I realise that there will always be people who dont, but that if people feel something deep from your art, if you truely tapped into that place that hits your soul, then chances are it will receive some kind of popular aclaim and im totally OK with that. right?
Thursday 7 April 2011
Summer live
So here is me and Mr Fisher playing at a charity event in London for homeless people, I assume people possbly thought that it was us they were raising money for... Anyway, its a small taster of much more to come, the music video will be premiering on 'Dazed and confused' web site shortly, and a release party will follow. Hope you enjoy!
Tuesday 5 April 2011
I read the news today o'boy
This seems to spark up conversation at work, some call me jadded, others just think I'm a knob.
I stopped reading news papers years ago, when I realised that reading bad stories with bad literature bores the shit out of me, when I realised my eyes where being diverted from what was really going on in my own back garden, when I realised that I was being lied to by the media... or the government... or both! when I got sick of being brain washed by their advertisement, when my girlfriend read you can get cancer from burnt toast (as if living in London wouldn't equate to one of the worst things for your health?), when I could see it was feeding me fear and turning me inside out and round on myself till I didnt know what to think. Till I feared not only the last trusted peoples of our endangered society like the teachers that prey on children to the hooded knife carrying children themselves, but finally myself and what a madman I am and how they should take away my rights so as not to harm myself and others!
These days im out the loop, I hear the roomers, the second hand gosip (all papers are is official gosip really), i'm a satalite orbiting the fringes of this world, like hubble tearing across space at 18000 miles and hour, im told I can keep up with the world if I only read a paper, but this old world needs to keep up with me. I hear the weeks frenzied news where we either gotta give to someone or take from someone else, like anyone here is worthy of that roll, even with a coalition government they couldn't 'run' a bath, maybe a blood bath, or a bath of shit!, its those politicians looking down, its the doctor that looks puzzled by your symptoms and perscribes a drug that neither of you has a clue about, its the banker who lost your money, and would you believe that for all their airs and titles, the power they take upon themselves with their swish accents and super cars, that they are thicker than most guys you meet down the pub? yes its true, you can educate someone till they're big and fat and behind a desk in a skyscraper that reaches the moon, but they'll still be dense as a concrete slab, and slotted in next to the other bricks and cemented together with the other mashed up bits of the human race that gave up thinking probably from reading newspapers.
So no I dont read news papers! and I'm not swayed by the colourful text, or the more 'liberal' papers (whatever that means, and I know they dont mean it like 'the sun' does) so now when people ask 'why?' and think im ignorant (which I'm sure I am) I can redirect them to my blog about news papers.
One thing for sure is I got alot more time to think about other things...
I stopped reading news papers years ago, when I realised that reading bad stories with bad literature bores the shit out of me, when I realised my eyes where being diverted from what was really going on in my own back garden, when I realised that I was being lied to by the media... or the government... or both! when I got sick of being brain washed by their advertisement, when my girlfriend read you can get cancer from burnt toast (as if living in London wouldn't equate to one of the worst things for your health?), when I could see it was feeding me fear and turning me inside out and round on myself till I didnt know what to think. Till I feared not only the last trusted peoples of our endangered society like the teachers that prey on children to the hooded knife carrying children themselves, but finally myself and what a madman I am and how they should take away my rights so as not to harm myself and others!
These days im out the loop, I hear the roomers, the second hand gosip (all papers are is official gosip really), i'm a satalite orbiting the fringes of this world, like hubble tearing across space at 18000 miles and hour, im told I can keep up with the world if I only read a paper, but this old world needs to keep up with me. I hear the weeks frenzied news where we either gotta give to someone or take from someone else, like anyone here is worthy of that roll, even with a coalition government they couldn't 'run' a bath, maybe a blood bath, or a bath of shit!, its those politicians looking down, its the doctor that looks puzzled by your symptoms and perscribes a drug that neither of you has a clue about, its the banker who lost your money, and would you believe that for all their airs and titles, the power they take upon themselves with their swish accents and super cars, that they are thicker than most guys you meet down the pub? yes its true, you can educate someone till they're big and fat and behind a desk in a skyscraper that reaches the moon, but they'll still be dense as a concrete slab, and slotted in next to the other bricks and cemented together with the other mashed up bits of the human race that gave up thinking probably from reading newspapers.
So no I dont read news papers! and I'm not swayed by the colourful text, or the more 'liberal' papers (whatever that means, and I know they dont mean it like 'the sun' does) so now when people ask 'why?' and think im ignorant (which I'm sure I am) I can redirect them to my blog about news papers.
One thing for sure is I got alot more time to think about other things...
Monday 4 April 2011
Fatotum
If you read anything by him, books or poems or short stories you're sure to love it.
Two movies... Barfly and Factotum both are great, but factotum is really awesome, in every Bukowski lowlife way, I never read anything as real as how he can put things down in words.
It ends on this beautiful note:
'If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.'
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